{"id":4651,"date":"2012-09-28T10:48:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2012-09-28T10:48:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T15:48:31","slug":"rare-shrew-found-in-western-n-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4651","title":{"rendered":"Rare Shrew Found In Western N.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shrew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4652\" title=\"shrew\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shrew-150x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) &#8211; For the second time in two years, a Dickinson State University research team has found a rare shrew inwestern North Dakota.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s National Museum of National History confirmed the tiny critter found this summer was a<br \/>\nMerriam&#8217;s shrew.<\/p>\n<p>The Smithsonian also confirmed the shrew found last year.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dickinson State associate professor Michael Shaughnessysays \u00a0the shrew is notendangered and has a wide range in the western U.S. But he says<br \/>\nit&#8217;s rare to find one in North Dakota.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Until the discoveries in the past two years, the only other<br \/>\nMerriam&#8217;s shrew documented in North Dakota was caught near Medora<br \/>\nin 1913.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The recent discoveries were made in an ongoing project involving<br \/>\nstudents who are surveying prairie dog towns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) &#8211; For the second time in two years, a Dickinson State University research team has found a rare shrew inwestern North Dakota. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s National Museum of National History confirmed the tiny critter found this summer was a Merriam&#8217;s shrew. The Smithsonian also confirmed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4654,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions\/4654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}